On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:24:44PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> The testing of PERLIO=perlio exposed a recursion bug at a number of 
> places where iterative logical name translation is performed.  In 
> particular, the handling of cases like:
> 
>      FOO -> BAR -> BAZ -> myfile.dat
> 
> left us open to cases like:
> 
>      FOO -> FOO -> FOO -> ad infinitum
> 
> where the logical name and its equivalence name are the same 
> (regardless of case).
> 
> As far as I can tell, native VMS utilities don't generally check for
> recursion, but they do limit the number of allowed iterations, which
> has the side effect of preventing unlimited recursion.  I've added 
> this behavior to our iterative logical name translations.  Patch 
> below.
> 
> The patch also brings perldelta.pod more up-to-date with VMS news.

Thanks, applied.

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